July 2008
91 posts
June 2008
24 posts
Rivne, Ukraine →
For the record, this is where I am until July 17th.
“I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in...”
– Susan Sontag (via mischadehart)
Fine reading this week:
1. Steve Berlin Johnson on turning 40: Would the 20 year old you buy the 40 year old you a beer? (+more)
2. Regular Guys @ The Morning News: a story about dating across the college town divide
My Brightest Diamond on Twitter →
I am now following My Brightest Diamond on Twitter. Asthamtic Kitty (MBD’s label) gets the web with such style and intelligence, I love it.
They also have a blog where they share things they find interesting (vs. just writing about themselves!) - The Sidebar.
T: -15 days and counting
It’s thrilling to buy a one way ticket and not yet hold the return one in your hands. Fills you with possibility and excitement. Trip so far: June 28 - ~July 17: Rivne, Ukraine ~July 17 ~ Aug 1: Prague, Czech Republic Aug 1 - Sept 1: Berlin ~Sept 1 - ?: Montreal (?)
Neutral Milk Hotel - The Fool (Pelican City Mix)
...
so you want to be a writer
nikography:
an excerpt that I really enjoy from a poem by Charles Bukowski
the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don’t add to that. don’t do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it.
when it is...
Uber.com "is the best place online to create a... →
I just vomited a little trying to use this. I guess it’s supposed to replace Tumblr.
“—- creates
the kind of National PR
exposure you need to
hijack the...”
– From an email promoting a PR firm’s services sent to the abuse@ email at Hype Machine.
Hijacking the consciousness? That’s all I want!
8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 22 →
This list is very travel-centric, with some of it up for debate, but what were things YOU wished you knew when you were 22? Reblog and respond!
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it...”
– William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, via Ian
“Every other site is trying to break the world’s greatest new band every...”
– Sean Michaels, creator of the Said the Gramophone music blog. Amazingly put.
Read a slightly old but great Observer story on music blogs here.
Why I do Hype Machine →
Ian from Songkick wrote up the things he loves most about live shows. Reading these, I can’t agree more - those are often the moments where I am reminded of why I do what I do. There are more reasons, of course, but the energy and excitement of live musc is a big one.